Churches Plan Near East Day in Muscatine
Muscatine churches observe Golden Rule Sunday with fasting and prayer for Near East Relief. Mulford Congregational hosts a morning service led by Rev. C. W. Hempstead. United Brethren features a men’s lead service with talks by Jess Wagner Glen Pollock and others. First Congregational presents slide and story on Lorna Doone. Zion Lutheran hosts a 10 am mission program. First Christian holds evening sermon on Catholic contributions to Protestant creeds by Rev. J. S. Raum.
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Muscatine
Near East Relief Movement
Mulford
Walter Herwie
Thomas Dilley
Jess Wagner
Glen Pollock
Ira Hawley
First Congregational Church
Lorna Doone
Zion Lutheran Church
First Christian Church
J. S. Raum
Maccabee Hall
Miss Ruth Stinson Weds Wayne Westerman in Parsonage Ceremony
Miss Ruth Stinson daughter of Cyrus and Mrs Stinson of Clinton street married Wayne L Westerman of Wapello son of Lewis Westerman in a Thursday evening ceremony at First Baptist Church parsonage. Rev George Dawkins officiated. The couple will reside in Muscatine.
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Ruth Stinson
Wayne Westerman
Cyrus Stinson
Clinton Street
Wayne L. Westerman
Wapello
Lewis Westerman
First Baptist Church
George Dawkins
Elmer T. Hill
Barry Manufacturing Company
Muscatine
Women’s Relief Corps Elects Staff for Year
The Women’s Relief Corps held a meeting at Maccabee hall electing Rose Hillmer as president Nellie Griffin as senior vice president Anna Wiegand as junior vice president Prudence Bowen as treasurer Sarah Craddock as chaplain Mary Flannery as conductor Julia Bitzer as guard Martha Oberhaus Vera Freyermuth and Effie Storey as delegates and Nellie Griffin Jennie Tillie Minnie Walters as alternates to the department convention in Newton Ta Mae Feinster as delegate and Helen Tadewald as district alternate The installation will occur in early January.
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Women’s Relief Corps
Maccabee Hall
Rose Hillmer
Nellie Griffin
Anna Wiegand
Prudence Bowen
Sarah Craddock
Mary Flannery
Julia Bitzer
Martha Oberhaus
Vera Freyermuth
Effie Storey
Lutheran Ladies Plan All Day Sale and Sewing
The Ladies Aid of Grace English Lutheran Church met in the church parlors to arrange an all day sewing session next Friday and a food sale on December 18. Mrs. Louis Angersbach led the social hour.
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Tutheran Society
Ladies’ Aid Society
Grace English Lutheran Church
Louis Angersbach
St Marys Aid Plans Dec Bake Sale At Home Tea
The Ladies Aid society of St Marys Catholic church met to plan a bake sale for December 11 at the Home Tea Company store. Members spent the afternoon sewing and quilting and will reconvene next Thursday at the church.
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ST. Mary's Aid Society
Ladies Aid Society
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Home Tea Company
Christmas sale by Trinity and St Margaret Guilds
Trinity Episcopal church guilds announce their annual Christmas sale on Tuesday at the parish hall. Meetings are suspended for the holidays and will resume in January. officer elections for the new year occur Monday evening at 7:45 in the parish hall. Other items of importance will be discussed.
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Trinity and
St. Margaret Guilds
Trinity Episcopal Church
Muscatine Journal
Election of Officers by Lady Eagles Lodge
Election of officers will be held Monday evening at the lodge hall. A banquet will be served for members following the meeting.
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Lady Eagles Lodge
Jacob Liebbe Wins Contest At Juvenile Amateur Night
Jacob Liebbe won first prize with a musical monologue When Grandpa Was a Boy with Miss Stella Ribak as accompanist at the Palace Friday. Second prize went to a quintet performing Old Black Joe and My Old Kentucky Home. Beverly Strohm took third with a Black Bottom dance as Palace orchestra accompanied.
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Jacob Liebbe
Joseph Best
Francis Fletcher
Charles Thomas
Everett Woliday
Burlington High School Wins Hawkeye Trophy
Burlington High School newspaper The Purple and Gray won the Burlington Hawkeye trophy for best all around high school paper at the Iowa High School Press association convention held in Grinnell on Friday and Saturday.
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Burlington High School
Grinnell
Burlington Hawkeye
Iowa High School Press Association
Railways Booming in Manchuria Spur New Constructions
The success of recently opened rail lines in Manchuria has spurred plans for additional railway construction. Officials cite growing traffic and economic benefits as key reasons to expand the network.
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Manchuria
Calumet Baking Powder Promises Reliable Quick Breads
Marion Jane Parker of the Calumet Baking Powder Co explains how baking powder. Calumet’s double acting formula provides dependable results in both quick and slow ovens. Modern science reduces labor and doubt, delivering hot breakfast to dinner in minutes.
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Marion Jane Parker
Calumet Baking Powder Co
Fairport church club plans Christmas sale at Grimm drug store
The Fairport Lutheran church ladies club met at Mrs. F. McCoy’s home to organize a food and Christmas sale. The sale will be held Saturday at Grimm drug store opening at 10 o’clock in the morning.
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Fairport
L. L. C. Club Meeting Postponed at Havercamp Home
The L. L. C. club meeting scheduled for Tuesday at Mrs. J. E. Havercamp’s home has been postponed.
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L. L. C. Club
J. E. Havercamp
Daughters of the Union Veterans Meet at Memorial Hall
The Daughters of the Union Veterans will hold a business meeting at 7 30 p m Monday evening in Memorial Hall at the courthouse.
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Daughters of the Union Veterans
Memorial Hall
Court House
Local stockyards receive hogs and weekly receipts tally
Five carloads of hogs arrived at the stockyards plus about 250 head from local drovers. Purchasers include W. H. Stonebarger Lone Tree W. H. Droll Hills D. C. Blain Byron City and two cars from W. C. Gretter Harper. Week total约 3,500 head.
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W. H. Stonebarger
Lone Tree
W. H. Droll
Hills
D. C. Blain
Byron City
W. C. Gretter
Harper
Presbyterians omit evening service for Dr. Stein funeral
Funeral services for Dr. S. G. Stein at the Presbyterian church Sunday at 3 30 will cause the regular evening service to be omitted. Dr. J. B. Rendall announces the change to allow members to attend memorial services with Masonic ceremonies led by Rendall and Dr. J. N. Elliott of Bloomington Illinois. Sawdust may be converted into sugar by a claimed English invention.
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Fred Warner Foster
Reynolds Cemetery
Illinois
Elks Lodge
Albert S. Barry
Leonard Bowen
Elks Home
Mr. Barry
S. G. Stein
Presbyterian Church
J. B. Rendall
Stein
Dr. Rendall
J. N. Elliott
Bloomington
Steamship Service To Cuba And Isle Of Pines Begun
A new steamship route is launched linking Cuba with the Isle of Pines. In England, African red berries are worn as beads, reflecting trade fashions of the era.
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Cuba
The
Isle of Pines
Africa
England
Ploughing Match Stages Old Plows Against Tractors
In Middlesex England a ploughing match showcased traditional old fashioned plows competing with modern tractors in a recent event highlighting rural farming skill and equipment.
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Middlesex
England
Father Leonard Heads Davenport Diocese
The Very Rev F J Leonard formerly pastor at St Mathias Muscatine is named administrator economus of the Davenport diocese. He will oversee diocese affairs until a new bishop is appointed by Pope Pius XI following a bishop’s council meeting with Archbishop J J Keane. Archbishop Keane will preach Bishop Davis funeral at Sacred Heart Cathedral Monday at 11 a m with Archbp Heelan of Sioux City as celebrant. The Bishop's body was moved to the episcopal residence Friday and will lie in state at the cathedral until mass Monday.
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F. J. Leonard
St. Mathias
Muscatine
Davenport
Father Leonard
Pope Pius XI
Davis
J. J. Keane
Dubuque
Keane
Sacred Heart Cathedral
Edward Heelan
Sioux City
Orchestra Plays To Large Crowd
The Jackson school orchestra of 28 performed its annual Christmas concert before a packed high school audience. Encores were demanded for several selections with Rollie Scholten, William Johnston, and Paul Geibel featured in solos and duets. Ruth Springborn and Robert Baker were noted soloists, and Mrs. Ida Appel Springborn directed. The group will perform again at the A-Muse-U theatre on Wednesday evening December 15.
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Jackson School
Rollie Scholten
William Johnston
Whispering Hope
Paul Geibel
Robert Baker
Ruth Springborn
Legion Musical Comedy adds further cast at Grand theatre
Miss B V Taylor announces additional talent for the American Legion production Thats That at the Grand theatre on Dec 9. Guests include Esther Pearlman Jeanette Pearlman Ethel Drucker Rosa Lee Edna Maxine Dorothy Chaffee Lloyd Bowman Emerson Edmonds Ray Young Jim Dugan William Callaway Melvin Luckhardt. Caterers Gladys Swain Ora Knotts Madeline Summitt Myrtle Boulter. Charleston girls Mary Sturns Agatha Roby Edith Hinman Maxine Field Zella Wishart Dorothy Fuhlman. Stags Claire Newell Emerson Edmunds Allen Rankin Ray Young Quentin Summitt James Dugan Elmer Tobias Howard Sharp William Callaway Henry Philpott George Wollett. Elmer Zieglers orchestra with Irma Dyche to provide music for the show.
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American Legion
Grand Theatre
Myrtle Boulter
Charleston
Mary Sturns
Agatha Roby
Edith Hinman
Maxine Field
Zella Wishart
Dorothy Fuhlman
Stags
Claire Newell
Emerson Edmunds
Allen Rankin
Ray Young
Quentin Summitt
James Dugan
Elmer Tobias
Howard Sharp
William Callaway
Ilenry Philpott
George Wollett
The
Legion
Elmer Ziegler
Irma Dyche
Postoffice Gets Placards for Early Mailing Campaign
Cardboard placards saying Shop and Mail Soon were received at the local postoffice for display. The campaign educates the public to mail early to reduce Christmas postal burden and improve service. A postal bulletin urges complete return addresses on parcels and letters to ensure delivery and avoid dead letters.
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Postoffice
Postoffice Department
Defendants Attack Diercks New Reply in Suit
In district court, defendants Charles Frank and Hannah Norton move to strike Diercks amended reply and attached interrogatories. Diercks sues to undo a property transfer from Charles and Frank to Hannah Norton claiming it defrauds satisfaction of a judgment. Attorneys Jackson for Diercks and Hanley firm for the Nortons.
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R. J. Diercks
Charles, Frank
Hannah Cecilia Norton
Diercks
Charles
Frank
Hannah Norton
R. S. Jackson
Hanley & Hanley
J. F. Devitt
The
Nortons
Davenport Man Pleads Guilty in Oil Station Break In
Grundy Morehead of Davenport pleaded guilty to breaking and entering the Standard Oil filling station on Easthill in December 1925. He received six months in the county jail and a $50 fine plus costs, the same sentence given to accomplice Fred Mills of Rock Island.
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Grundy Morehead
Davenport
D. W. Jackson
Fred Mills
Rock Island
Morehead
Standard Oil Company
Easthill
Nichols, Tipton & Tipton
Swedish star Einar Hanson to lead Corinne Griffith in Into Her Kingdom
Einar Hanson, 23, debuts in American film opposite Corinne Griffith in Into Her Kingdom directed by Svend Gade at the Palace. Hanson, after six years on Swedish Danish stages, came to the U S from Piazzi del Popolo Italy earning a government honor. Greta Nissen and Greta Garbo were among Swedish predecessors gaining American notice.
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Corinne Griffith
First National Pictures
E. M. Asher
Beautiful Star
Miss Griffith
Jack Mulhall
Malcolm MacGregor
Percy Marmont
Modiste
Norman Kerry
Corinne
Einar Hanson
Kingdom
Svend Gade
Palace Theatre
Hanson
America
Italy
Sweden
Norway
Solar Company
Berlin
Hollywood
Greta Nissen
Greta Garbo
Sparrows at A Muse T theatre with Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford stars in Sparrows from United Artists arriving Tuesday at A Muse T theatre. She plays Mama Mollie a tender mother with a mischievous side set in a ragged but radiant world. The film blends comedy thrills and pathos highlighting Pickford’s charm.
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A.muse-T
Mary Pickford
Sparrows
United Artists Corporation
A-Muse-T
Mama Mollie
Havden
Annie Rooney
Missouri Breaks With Washington In Valley League
Des Moines reports the long rivalry between Missouri and Washington University at St. Louis may end after 1891 to 1926. Student outbreaks halted the St. Louis game this fall and Missouri officials canceled the annual meeting. An Oct 15 slot remains on Missouri’s schedule as talks continue about a ninth game requiring approval from the Missouri Valley conference faculty advisors.
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Des Moines
Missouri Valley
Missouri
Washington University
St. Louis
Washington
Missouri Valley Conference
Nebraska
Walker Flowers bout under probe
The Illinois boxing commission opened an investigation into the ten round match last night in Chicago after which Mickey Walker defeated Tiger Flowers to take the title into the ring but the panel did not reach a decision at luncheon recess.
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Chicago
Ill
Illinois State Boxing Commission Today
Tiger Flowers
Mickey Walker
Radio Rialto slate features major orchestras and college game
Selected programs from stations across the Midwest and beyond include Burnell Schuler and Fay Mac Carthy on WOC and KOIL double acts, St. Louis-Iowa basketball from WSUI, and market and weather reports from WOI. WEAF and a Boston Symphony broadcast lead a network of evening music and dance slots from Chicago, Dallas, St. Louis, and New York venues with late night wraps across KOA and WDAF networks.
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Associated Press
Burnell Schuler
Fay MacCarthy
Marigold Cassin
WOC
Davenport
KOIL
Council Bluffs
Greenlee Brothers
KMA
Shenandoah
KFNF
Duncan
KSO
Clarinda
St. Louis- Iowa University
WSUI
Iowa City
WOI
Ames
Iowa
New York Symphony
WEAF
New York City
WEEI
WGR
WFI
WCAE
WSAI
WTAM
WGN
WCCO
KSD
WDAF
Boston Symphony
WFAA
Dallas
WLS
Chicago
KFUO
St. Louis
WMC
Memphis
WPG
Atlantic City
WRNY
New York
WBBM
WENR
WHK
Cleveland
WLW
Cincinnati
WCFL
WIP
Philadelphia
WJAZ
WOAW
Omaha
KPRC
Houston
WGY
Schenectady
WGBS
WHT
WJZ
CNRW
Winnipeg
Minneapolis-St. Paul
WRC
Washington
KOA
Denver
Kansas City
KFI
Los Angeles
KNX
Hollywood
Bishop Elected K P Leader in Knights of Pythias
F C Bishop was elected chancellor commander at the Knights of Pythias officer election. Other officers named include H B Lord vice chancellor and A F Grensing re-elected trustee for three years. Installation planned for January with lodge rooms to be redecorated and new lighting installed by next Friday evening.
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F. C. Bishop
Knights of Pythias
H. B. Lord
F. C. Grensing
Charles Weber
A. S. Grensing
Paul Steinmetz
H. L. Coon
Charles Coon
A. McCormick
John C. Miller
A. F. Grensing
October Gas Tax Remittance for Muscatine County
Muscatine county treasurer received an October gasoline tax apportionment totaling $2,512.16, representing two thirds of the state collection. It will be split equally between the county road fund and township road funds, while one third stays with the state. A separate note mentions growing shoes with removable linings appearing in Europe.
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Muscatine County
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